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RACING JUDGES SHOT DOWN F. W. .Gerhardy and P. E. Callen in Critical Condition in Akron Hospital. AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 20. As a result of a shooting affray, which took place in the rotunda of the Portage Hotel shortly before noon here today, judges F. Wt. Gerhardy of Detroit and Peter E. Callen of Toronto, Canada, are both lying in the Peoples Hospital in a critical condition. Trainer M. "Slim" Webb is now in custody of the police, charged with the crime. Judge Callen was shot twice, but according to the latest reports from the hospital judge Gerhardy is in the more serious condition of the two. The shooting was an aftermath of a ruling made against Webb by the judges during Thursdays racing at Northampton Park. Webb submitted quietly to arrest.
